[Sugar-devel] Scaling options for sugar-emulator?

[Sascha Silbe]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:06:26AM -0500, Jim Simmons wrote:

> I'm wondering if the options for sugar-emulator are documented
> somewhere.  I couldn't find anything.
Guessing from then rest of your message you seem to already have 
discovered the --help option. I don't think there's anything else, 
especially since sugar-emulator is barely more than a wrapper around 
Xephyr.

> This is what I'm trying to do:  I need to do a desktop recording of 
> Sugar in action.  When I try to do this with sugar-emulator running 
> with no options the window size is much too large to record 
> effectively.
Strange, the default should be 800x600. What does xdpyinfo say?

> I notice however that sugar-emulator has other options, including one 
> for scale, and I wonder if these options could give me still better 
> results.
Currently the only supported values for SUGAR_SCALING (which is what 
--scale sets) are 72 ("regular PC") and 100 ("XO").

> The end result needs to be a 640x480 video where everything looks in
> proportion just like a real Sugar screen would look, or as close to
> that as possible.  What sugar-emulator options can I use to achieve
> that?
Others may have better suggestions, but how about reducing the capture 
rate (and doing the manual interactions slowly) instead of the screen 
size and postprocess the video to reduce screen size and speed it up? 
It's only a bad hack, but might at least work.

CU Sascha

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